Staying Home:
The Song of the Saving of Studio Lance

I am going to die with a smile on my face
No matter how much it hurts
A scapegrace escaping with grace
After getting my just deserts

I am going to die with a gleam in my eye
Simply since what I have seen
Adventuring through time and space
Is better than what might have been

I would die as I live with my heart on my sleeve
Having always worn it there
But there is here and though I die I would not leave
Not with luck and answered prayer

I am going to stay here with love in my heart
Having sweet days for dessert
Just deserving to love after hate played its part
No matter how much it hurt
Or does or will to live my fill
A scapegrace escaping with grace
To die with a smile on my face

I will meet death ahead where I left it behind
On my next coming around
Let the smile on my face then show I did not mind
Because I was homeward bound

I am a scapegrace who refused to escape without grace
Fairweather friends had faith I would lose and said so
But I had more faith than they did so I said no
That I would go down the hard way and yet: somehow I won

Halfway through the journey my life has begun
I live now to die with a smile on my face
Having won night by day when the journey is done
I will come back in death as in life to this place

After getting my just deserts
A scapegrace escaping with grace
No matter how much it hurts
I am going to die with a smile on my face

+Steven Curtis Lance



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